Film+Series+Spring+2014

Free. All welcome.
 * RPI Sustainability Film Series **

Bldg 6 on this [|map]. Parking along 15th Street.
 * Russell Sage Lab 3303 **


 * Sunday, March 2, 4-6pm **
 * // Building a Better World: Engineers Without Borders //**showcases the work of nine different Engineers Without collegiate chapters active in community development programs around the world. The film includes a section on work done by RPI's own chapter in Panama. RPI’s chapter was chosen out of 389 chapters to be included in the film set. Learn more about Engineers Without Borders.



** Sunday, April 6, 4-6pm (DCC 308) **
 * // Homo Toxicus // ** follows filmmaker Carole Pollquin as she works to understand her own blood test showing a "body burden" of toxic chemicals. Pollquin talks to scientists and health regulators, and visits communities across Canada with different kinds of chemical exposures, and arrays of health problems -- respiratory ailments, fertility problems, learning disorders, high incidence of deafness. The film is sobering and funny, and points to critical scientific and political challenges. See the [|U.S. National Report on Human Exposure to Enviromental Chemicals.], and [|Safer States review of toxics regulation among U.S. states.]

